Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary CultureSimultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public’s desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the explosion of instant access to celebrity culture, bringing famous people and their admirers closer than ever before. |
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... consumption and that hidden intimacies have become some sort of desire for an inner truth and meaning that is oddly tied to prurient and voyeuristic pleasures. Celebrity culture's role is equally at play in breaking the boundaries of ...
... consumption via haute couture and the department store in the middle to late nineteenth century, where the mix of classes could see, through the glass of the department store and arcade windows, the idealizations of consumption—a ...
... consumption in a manner that is pregnant with objectives and purposes but occasionally appears to be devoid of either. Consider the proliferation of “selfies,” or selfportraits, in online and mobile culture. Because of the ease in both ...
... consumption. Building personas has become an industry in the proliferating online and offline self-help literature, as Harold's work reveals, and books such as those by Alan Mulholland (who presents himself as a “persona coach”) and ...
... Consumption of Celebrity News and Gossip Websites.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 14, no. 5 (2011): 515–30. Minnesota Review. Special issue, “Academostars,” nos. 52–54 (2001). Minta, Stephen. “Byron, Death, and the Afterlife ...
Contents
Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individual | |
The Mob the Crowd | |
Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form | |
The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction | |
Televisions Construction of the Celebrity | |
The System of Celebrity | |
The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture | |
Forms of PowerForms of Public Subjectivity | |
PoliticalPopular Culture | |
Index | |